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Palais de la Légion d'Honneur, also known as the Hôtel de Salm, 64 rue de Lille, Paris.. In French contexts, an hôtel particulier is a townhouse of a grand sort. Whereas an ordinary maison (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a street, an hôtel particulier was often free-standing, and by the 18th century it would ...
Monographs have been published on some outstanding Parisian hôtels particuliers.; The classic photographic survey, now a rare book found only in large art libraries, is the series Les Vieux Hotels de Paris by J. Vacquer, published in the 1910s and 1920s, which takes Paris quarter by quarter and which illustrates many hôtels particuliers that were demolished during the 20th century.
View of the Place des Arts esplanade. The Musée d'art contemporain is on the left; behind it is the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, with the Théâtre Maisonneuve on the right. Place des Arts (French pronunciation: [plas dez‿aʁ]) is a major performing arts centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the largest cultural and artistic complex in Canada. [1]
N os. 63-67 (and 10, rue de Poitiers): Hôtel de Pomereu, built in 1872-1874 by David de Pénanrun for Marquis Armand de Pomereu d'Aligre in the Louis XV style, replacing two 18th-century hotels of which only a few remains: Hôtel Duret (67, rue de Lille), owned by the commissioning owner, and Hôtel de Maillebois (n o. 63), which he bought in ...
The Hôtel de la Païva ("Mansion of La Païva") is a hôtel particulier, a type of large townhouse of France, that was built between 1856 and 1866, at 25 Avenue des Champs-Élysées by the courtesan Esther Lachmann, better known as La Païva. [1] She was born in modest circumstances in the Moscow ghetto, to Polish parents.
The Maison de l’Art nouveau, 1895. The Maison de l'Art Nouveau ("House of New Art"), abbreviated often as L'Art Nouveau, and known also as Maison Bing for the owner, was a gallery opened on 26 December 1895, by Siegfried Bing at 22 rue de Provence, Paris. [1] The building was designed by the architect Louis Bonnier (1856–1946). [2]
Pages in category "Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Musée des Arts et Métiers (French pronunciation: [myze dez‿aʁ e metje]; English: Museum of Arts and Crafts) is an industrial design museum in Paris that houses the collection of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, which was founded in 1794 as a repository for the preservation of scientific instruments and inventions. [1]